I’m familiar with Premise, but it seems more geared toward making traditional, copy-heavy landing pages. I’m specifically referring to the short-copy, graphic-heavy landing pages like I linked to in my examples.

If they are using Premise for their landing pages, I’d love to know how. The examples shown in the Premise demo look nothing like the landing pages on Copyblogger & Studiopress.

What I’d said was that there are more than a few existing Genesis child themes that come with a landing page template, usually named page_landing.php, and you could use that as a roadmap.

And there is a tutorial from last year on Brian Gardner’s blog, and since the forum here is being mean to me and not letting me post URLs, you can find it by searching on “Brian Gardner landing page tutorial” — Google has it as the first result

From your outline, it sounds like you are looking for something a little more like the home page for the Epik child theme, something with widgets as defined row areas? I’m a big fan of widgetized pages these days, but it’s not hard to add those spaces yourself.

The Landing Page just gives you the blank canvas for your content without the distraction of sidebars. It’s still up to you to create and format the content that goes into those Landing Pages.

If you need to use different fonts, check into Google Fonts for free or Typekit for an annual fee. Both have some great choices. It looks like the StudioPress page uses Google Fonts, so you have access to the same style.

As for the graphics and the layout, that depends upon you. The Landing Page isn’t doing that for you, but the tools are there to create columns to help your layouts.